Protest 7 March 2012
Posted by marisacat in 2012 Re Election, Viva La Revolucion!.trackback
Women Protesting -
St Petersburg, Russia: police detain a protester after Vladimir Putin’s election victory | Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters
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Women Protesting -
Male, Maldives: a protester peers through riot shields during a rally. Opposition MPs in the Maldives have prevented the new president, who is accused of seizing power in a coup, from opening parliament | Ibrahim Faid/AFP/Getty Images
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Do do do drop in at Google today, in honor of International Womens day there is what th International press (I aw the headline at the UK Telegraph) is calling a Google Doodle.
A doodle.
https://www.google.com/
It incorporates the international symbol for the female gender, in case it is confusing.
Carry on!
Hey lift a glass to the day!
some of them are very clever. They have an archive of them here.
I liked the one they did for… oh some cartoon characters, some anniversary of the cartoonist or a show – - not sure if muppets or smurfs or who… Dr Seuss… it moved….
but this was a dud.
I liked the one for Les Paul’s birthday, a guitar you could play.
Anything that kills a Kerrey candidacy is fine with me
Read more: Politico
Obama – presented as a religion solved only thru steadfast belief… OR a standard Hollywood, bad, no action flick that is hyped as an enthralling, fast action flick. Via Mike Allen email Politico.
People are in a state of thrall, no argument there.
We are so screweddddd
I see they have Eliz Warren for the wimmens vote… and the rest for whomeverelse there is.
jeezus, is the whole fucking movie in slow-mo??? but, what else would we expect from an oscar winning film-maker.
and, lol on the male narrator.
I am sure we will get something as laughable on Mittens… but still.
Masses of hogwash.
well, the last couple years have been …
I don’t think I could hold my food down for the whole thing.
Truly. I read last nght the “male narrator” is Tom Hanks.
I’ve avoided his movies for decades.
Hey all!
Just checking in to let you know I am alive and breathing. Nicotine cessation has thrown me into a horrible depression fraught with high anxiety and bouts of inconsolable sadness (with crying, even, almost daily for about a month)! ACK! Am clawing my way back out, but not quite there yet.
I haven’t been checking in here even for the past two or three weeks, but that I have this week and have gotten up the motivation, courage, whatever to post is a good sign, I’m thinking.
Hope you all are well, wish you lived on my block, so we could get together and have great conversations, hugs and drinks of varoius and sundry kinds!
Hi dear!!
And if you were to go to a clinic all they would recommend is a slew (more than one these days) of anti-depressant scripts. While they work for some people, and I am glad for them, they are not the answer for everybody…
Hang in there dear! Drop in anytime you like…
Well, I was already on Lexapro, my GP added Welbutrin on top of that about three weeks ago — that made me worse, got off of those and now I am on day 3 of an increased dose of the Lexapro….I think I am beginning to stabalize, but I also relapsed on Monday and smoked 4 cigs, then one on Tuesday…destroyed all the rest and bough an electronic cig…I only use it 2-3 times a day and the most puffs I’ve taken is 4 at a time….seems to work for now. Of course, it does have nicotine, and I am unsure of how much I’m getting with each puff, but it is ok for now. If I start wanting it more and more and more, then it will be time to get rid of it too…I just need to stabilize first, and I d
o not want to smoke anymore….but I don’t want to give myself a heart attack from stress and anxiety either!! And on it goes….
great that the anti depressants are working, that helps a lot.
Yes just bear in mind Amy Winehouse died of being off alcohol, rather than overdosing… (life is so complicated!)
What did she die of? Did she have a heart attack or stroke? Getting off of an addictive substance is nothing to be taken lightly….I should have prepared myself better for the possibility of depression and aniety– I prepared and got through all of the withdrawal no problem.
It is really annoying that doing something good for myself is making me feel so horrid….I suppose minimal doses of nicotine is better than breaking down in tears in front of my kids and feel crappy about it.
As the boys’ dad once told me, nothing worth doing is ever easy….heh, kind of ironic now that I think about it…I guess he didn’t think our marriage was worth doing…
I can’t quite remember which it was… but unfortunately the erroneous idea that she died of some type of overdose is out there…
Hi Brinn!!!
Hi Madman! How’re you?
pretty good, early spring fever in full effect up here in dairyland.
sorry to hear how deep demon nicotine had its hooks into you … hang in there.
Spring fever is awesome — I miss it living down here, as Spring is one of the three seasons that we don’t actually have. Enjoy!!
As for hanging in there — Thanks, I’m trying. Some days it feels like just by my fingernails, but I have struggled with cyclical depression for quite a few years now — it is always important for me to remember that it does get better…I just was not prepared for the lack of nicotine to send me into a spiral…I felt soooo awesome the first two weeks! I really really do not want to smoke, but I don’t want to be miserable every day either…*sigh*
I don’t handle the cold as well as I used to, but I don’t think I could live somewhere where there were no seasons.
we have two seasons, basically… it gets dreary. I call them Rain and Fire.
Oh, and happy international women’s day! With full moon, even. I wish it were dancing naked under the moon weather!
oh let me pass on a bit of joy I just caught off Deutsche Welle (via TV…. no chance yet to look up a print report on it)
“Kabul has passed a law allowing married women to be hit”.
Spread the joy!
Grand. Well, at least we (the USA) are keeping great company in terms of passing anti-women laws….
hmm I grabbed the first site that popped up, I think it is rightie, but they posted the full text AP report out of Kabul… fwiw.
They passed a lot of anti women laws in 2009, which s not mentioned…again fwiw:
From The Blaze
hmm Yesterday outside a courthouse in Tulsa, today… outside a psych clinic at Univ of Pittsburg…
Where tomorrow?
Google page
Catholic Church Cuts Homeless Shelter Contribution Because New Director Supports Choice, Gay Marriage
only some are deserving. The Catholic Church could not make it clearer…
sick fuckers
The Church in PDX told Street Roots, the local homeless paper, that they’d no longer donate it unless the paper dumped its Planned Parenthood ads– back in 2010.
Thankfully, the paper told the Church to take a flying leap and that they’d manage fine without its money. Thankfully, they’re still around.
oh and it is supposed to be only small burgs in the deepest south that are so religious and reactionary. NOt Portland, not Sacto, the capital of Cali.
Yeah right.
Cali is LOADED to the gills with fundies, all stripes, from Catholics of all colors, to imports to Pentecostal to evangelicals _ to what I call “Mission Asians” to whackjob black churches, to lunatic Filipino churches, to Muslims who wrap up the girl children right on schedule (and whatever else)… to very very very Orthodox Judaism.
It’s fucking scary. Whole enclaves of this and that…
so glad they have their priorities straight, fucking child-banging gawd-botherers.
I seriously wonder why they keep putting that silly section with the speech on the mountain in their damned book of fairy tales.
I don’t really understand why the Church would cut itself off from the flock like this. If Archbishop Schmuck and Friends aren’t careful, it may occur to the lost little lambs that their path to dignity and self-respect only gets easier without these coldhearted, over-controlling fuckheads breathing down their necks all the time.
So many people seem to be into the abuse and restriction of religion. And that ever present “judgement”.
Sen. Nina Turner introduces bill to protect men from dangers of Viagra
Beauty — did it actually get introduced or any co-sponsors?
looks like one so far, Senator Tavares
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYQhRCs9IHM&w=560&h=315%5D
code didn’t work … Bad Romance: Women’s Suffrage
[waves at brinn]
Sooo… I made two requests over at Boingboing as to why they excised my anti-love letter to Hopey’s health plan. No answer.
Guess that’s one more bastion of “free thought” that I can skip out on visiting ever again. Shitheads.
Also, my email box is full of various concerned messages from friends about Rush and his dislike of women. As of yet, zip in my email box regarding Obama telling us women that he can’t let us have Plan B because we’re too weak and stupid and female to control our own bodies.
Somebody please just fucking kill me already. Christ.
ObRama luvs you! And you must must must remember that Rush is a fat winger and a Viagra and Oxy user!
That is all you need t know.
No doubt. And Doctorow has iShears and a cyber-bridge he wants to sell us.
Here. I honestly couldn’t stand one more goddamn fucking word about goddamn fucking Rush or I would’ve fucking exploded. Mcat, if you have a link to that story you mentioned earlier where Hopey told the DC voters he didn’t care if poor women wanted funded abortions, please link it here. I definitely want it for posterity.
let me see what I can find… it was ………. last year I think. DC voted it in, locally, and in a deal with R congressional leadership SLob traded it away…
I’ll see if I can find, too, a stunner from the GE, he had a week when he let loose with a killer each day… and near the end he said “Women couldn’t have an abortion just for being blue”. Absolutely undid me. Jan Crawford Greenburg (must now be divorced as she has dropped th last name) was then with ABC and had a column at their site… she did three pieces on it… and called Obama to “the right of Antonin Scalia”. (She has now moved to CBS and I don’t now if ABC bothered to archive her column)
I barely know anyone anymore but I sent it to every one I could…
I am having a terrible time finding anything, let me wait for a fresh connection…
Thanks. I could do a search later on tonight, but first I have to go buy a bag of groceries with my big, fat temp check. :p (Who wants beans? Raise your hands!)
If you find them, I may have to send out an email of my own, even though the constant Obamapology fest makes my head throb with pain. There are friends and relatives I’m trying to avoid until ’13 just because I know we’re going to end up fighting about the smug, pious, class-baiting fuck and his right to my vote and I just have. not. got. the. stomach. for it. Gah.
TRy this, a HuffPo piece rides at the top of the selection… I think it has what is needed on the DC /abortion /poor women /funding mess… If the Huff Po doesn’t work there are others there…
It was only in December of ’11… it seemed in my memory SO LONG AGO that I worried it might be ’10.
Gah.
ABC wiped Jan Crawfrd and her column (Legalities, it was called) when she left… but I saw at Scott Lemieux that others wrote on the 7/08 comment of Slob on womens and their mental issues and timelines on abortion… I think a Bitch Ph.D link might be viable… Here it is,
http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/2008/07/grrrrrr.html
will go there later… ugh I can tell my connection is slowing down.
Thanks, M.
Is it possible to hit “bottom”? Do we even have a bottom?
News today is that tweets from
- Oprah
- Justin Bieber
and
- Rihanna (among a select list of celebrities)
have pushed the viral vid, Kony 2012.
Another fucking xtian war.
turns out they’re tied to evangelical groups:
I heard today that Kony hasn’t even been in Uganda for 6 years — and maintains an office in Washington DC. I would suspect he is part of the problem, hell why not, but so is our full time partner, Museveni. I gather Kony is our part time partner.
It’s time to bail on this country, but where does one even hope to go?
Oh! I just heard on the news that the child, well he was a child THEN, at the center of the viral vid, is still in Uganda, all grown up and in the process of becoming a … lawyer…
Speaking of the 17 minute slobber fest for Slob…. Madman sent me this…
Greenwald at
http://www.salon.com
There should be a drinking game for every time a Salon commenter in those threads doggedly insists that Hopey “means well.”
I guess that spares them the pain of realizing that they fell for yet another damn conman and his signed, framed picture of Reagan. [rolleyes]
What a huge con it is is part of what makes it so infernally infuriating. I wonder if all the black people who voted for him have any idea at all how he and his “success” will be shoved down their throats by white racists and exclusionists…. forever
To say nothing of the wimmens and older white “liberals”.
Oh, I saw that ten minutes after the election ended. Some hipster racist fuck on the local LJ bellowing that he didn’t want to ever again hear from the stupid PoCs about how Whitey kept them down and they could never get an even break, etc.
The stupidity comes from so many directions that sometimes you don’t even know how to begin dealing with it.
Yes everytime Slob or Memsab claims racism… well it won’t be them paying the price. Nor his black Chicago and black Martha’s Vineyard Harvard friends…
It will be the most vulnerable of blacks and others.
Women and the Leadership Gap
I know that in many ways this isn’t surprising, but what struck me is that the rough percentage of women in these positions across the board is roughly the same level:
Very telling.
Well, Hilary and Pelosi got theirs. Can’t we all just live vicariously through them? [rolleyes] Seems to be good enough for a whole lot of dimwit liberal feminists anyway.
And DIFi. And Cantwell… and Patty Murray (sad proof of what a “soccer mom” is!) and and and and….
Honestly, for five dollars cash right now I’d gladly knee one or all of them in the groin. Opportunistic condescending fucks, the lot of them. Pelosi in particular, for her merry silencing of any and all who wanted expanded Medicare.
Here’s another one: Granholm. UGH… both she AND her husband have sweetheart teaching deals over at Cal Berkeley – she teaches governmental leadership! One course is in fact called Gov Leadership in Hard Times!! He teaches a leadership course at the Law School, Boalt Hall.
… and another one moves out and on….
Read more at:
Wash Po
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